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Srinagar: Thirty persons including six cops were injured as militants attacked a police station and a vehicle with grenades at separate places within the span of two hours in Kashmir valley on June 20, official sources said.

27 persons, four of them policemen, were hurt when militants tossed a grenade on a police vehicle at Pulwama district town of South Kashmir around 11 am (IST), they said.

They said the grenade hit the front screen of the vehicle and exploded, causing injuries to four policemen and 23 pedestrians.

The security forces cordoned off entire area immediately and the injured were removed to hospital, where condition of six was stated to be serious, they said, two of the seriously injured were referred to Soura Medical Institute Srinaga (SMIS) hospital at Srinagar.

Prior to the incident, militants hurled a grenade at a police station at Charar-e-Sharief in Badgam district, wounding two cops and a youth held during anti-militancy operations, they said.

The grenade exploded at around 9.00 am (IST), seriously injuring two policemen and the youth Bashir Ahmad Mir, who were referred to SMIS, they added.

No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the explosions so far.

PTI